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SOA-C02 · Question #334

A company's SysOps administrator must ensure that all Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are launched in an AWS account have a third-party agent installed. The third-party agent has an .msi package…

The correct answer is A. Create a Systems Manager Distributor package for the third-party agent. D. Create a Systems Manager Opsitem with the tag value for Windows. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor-working-with- packages-deploy.html

Submitted by obi.ng· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A company’s SysOps administrator must ensure that all Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are launched in an AWS account have a third-party agent installed. The third-party agent has an .msi package. The company uses AWS Systems Manager for patching, and the Windows instances are tagged appropriately. The third-party agent requires periodic updates as new versions are released. The SysOps administrator must deploy these updates automatically. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort? (Choose two.)

Options

  • ACreate a Systems Manager Distributor package for the third-party agent.
  • BCreate a Systems Manager State Manager association to run the AWS-RunRemoteScript
  • CCreate a Systems Manager State Manager- association to run the AWS-ConfigureAWSPackage
  • DCreate a Systems Manager Opsitem with the tag value for Windows.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    71% (37)
  • B
    17% (9)
  • C
    12% (6)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor-working-with- packages-deploy.html

Topics

#Systems Manager Distributor#State Manager association#software deployment#Windows agents

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